Tom,

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>Once you “know something” you do not often think about how you gained your knowledge. You add to your knowledge through experience. There are so many ways we could approach this topic. Seems like we should do so in an orderly manner as we could only confuse a new comer with 1000 white papers on the same topic, each taking a different perspective. Now where to begin?

A reasonable idea and I also think that you've identified the key problem to be avoided.

Also, truth be told (my learning parallel yours), I simply forget many of those things that were "light bulb momemts" at the time, and it is these things being passed along clearly that would be most useful to the novice.

It also seems to me that MS still makes too much use and has too much reliance on "white papers"! I mean given that MS now hardly publishes PAPER manuals any more, I think it would be both reasonable and practical for MS to use the "Knowledge Base" and "White Papers" as preliminary supplements to the documentation - the ultimate destination being integration into the documentation with notation in the original 'supplement' that it has been integrated into "build xx.xxxx" of the documentation.

Jim

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>Tom